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Let Down Lyrics

Featured on Radiohead’s 1997 alternative-rock classic OK Computer, “Let Down” was recorded at 3 AM in a ballroom at the historic St Catherine’s Court. The song structure features multi-layered arpeggiated… Read More 

[Verse 1]

Transport, motorways and tramlines

Starting and then stopping

Taking off and landing

The emptiest of feelings

Disappointed people

Clinging onto bottles

And when it comes it's so, so disappointing

[Chorus]

Let down and hanging around

Crushed like a bug in the ground

Let down and hanging around

[Verse 2]

Shell smashed, juices flowing

Wings twitch, legs are going

Don't get sentimental

It always ends up drivel

One day I am gonna grow wings

A chemical reaction

Hysterical and useless

Hysterical and

[Chorus]

Let down and hanging around

Crushed like a bug in the ground

Let down and hanging around

[Bridge]

Let down and hang...

Let down and hang...

Let down and hang...

[Verse 3]

You know, you know where you are with

You know where you are with

Floor collapsing

Floating, bouncing back

And one day, I am gonna grow wings

A chemical reaction (You know where you are)

Hysterical and useless (You know where you are)

Hysterical and (You know where you are)

[Chorus]

Let down and hanging around

Crushed like a bug in the ground

Let down and hanging around